Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke to students and voters at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday.

On stage, dynasty Political candidates have begun to explain their personal ties to the Yellowhammer State.The first time was in 1972, when he was involved in an environmental case involving waterways in Alabama, and the second time was in 1980, when his uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, was campaigning for president as a Democrat.

“Alabama is like a second home to me,” Kennedy said.

After Kennedy spoke, pre-screened audience questions were posed to him. Asked what he would sell to Republican voters who might consider voting for him if former President Donald Trump were likely to win the Republican nomination, Kennedy mostly attacked Trump. Although he has no intention of doing so, he explained his policy during the coronavirus pandemic: The 2019 pandemic was “the most destructive economic policy in American history.”

Kennedy spoke about his uncle, President John F. Kennedy's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and emphasized President Kennedy's ability to listen to experts when deciding whether to escalate tensions between the Soviet Union and Cuba. In the end it was his.

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President Kennedy claimed that former President Donald Trump “kowled to the bureaucracy” and “gave us a lockdown” regarding the former president's coronavirus policies.

“President Trump and President Biden both had a chance and served a term…Let's not vote in a way that gives the American people at least one of two possible evils. And that's who you're voting for. You deserve someone who inspires you, who lets new ideas come to you, who listens to what people have to say instead of listening to vitriol, name-calling, and tribal arguments. Huh?”

I paid special attention to this answer because it was my question.

Unfortunately for Kennedy, this answer made me less likely to vote for him.

While I agreed with his take on former President Trump's mistakes during the pandemic, Kennedy doesn't really know why he's running for president other than the fact that he's Kennedy's replacement, at least. I felt like I couldn't explain it clearly. Two very unpopular candidates.

Ultimately, if I choose to vote for a candidate who is “inspiring” and “coming”;[s] I'll probably have to write a candidate, as Mr. Kennedy suggested, “like a new idea.''

Luke Mintz, secretary of the University of Alabama Republican Party, summed up President Kennedy's speech best as we left the room.

“It seemed like there were a lot of problems, but not a lot of solutions,” he said.

Riley McArdle is from Birmingham and is majoring in political science at the University of Alabama. He currently also serves as Chairman of the University of Alabama Republican Committee and Chief of Staff of the University of Alabama Republican Federation.